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Occupation
  
Writer

Name
  
Leah Laiman


Role
  
Writer

Shows
  
As the World Turns

Born
  
August 29, 1946 (age 77) (
1946-08-29
)
Tel Aviv, Israel

Awards
  
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team, WGA Award for Best Daytime Drama - Television

Similar People
  
Jean Passanante, Thom Racina, Sheri Anderson, Hogan Sheffer, Christopher Whitesell

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Leah Laiman (born August 29, 1946 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an American soap opera writer and romance novelist.

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Background

Laiman got her start on daytime television during the early 1980s at General Hospital. Laiman succeeded former Head Writer, Pat Falken Smith, along with novelist Thom Racina. The pair began working on the show during its heyday, including Luke Spencer and Laura Webber's widely publicized 1981 wedding, which included notable Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor. After three years on GH, Laiman followed Racina to Days of Our Lives to work with Sheri Anderson where the three wrote several stories, including Bo and Hope's wedding in England, and co-created the characters of Steve "Patch" Johnson and John Black. In 1986, Laiman became sole head writer and created the character of Jack Deveraux and further developed the popular romance of Steve Johnson and Kayla Brady.

After Days of our Lives, Laiman moved to One Life to Live, where she stayed as staff writer from 1990 through 1997 and served as head writer from 1990 to 1991 and then again from 1996 to 1997. In 1998, she took a job at the ailing NBC Daytime serial Another World. The show was cancelled in June 1999. Her next job was at As the World Turns. In 2000, Laiman was fired from ATWT and turned to writing novels for five years. Laiman was rehired on As the World Turns in 2005 as an associate head writer.

Positions held

Another World

  • Co-Head Writer (1998–25 June 1999)
  • The Last AW Writing Team: Leah Laiman (Head Writer, Jean Passanante (co-Head Writer), Stephen Demorest, Melissa Salmons, Laura Maria Censabella, Judy Tate, Tom Wiggin, Tom King, Maura Penders, Richard Culliton, Shelly Altman, Carolyn Culliton, Richard J. Allen, Sofia Landon Geier, Lynn Martin, Gillian Spencer, Mary Sue Price, Edwin Klein, Gordon Rayfield, Courtney Simon, Eleanor Labine

    • As the World Turns

  • Associate Head Writer (1997 - 1998; March 3, 2005 - 2005; October 6, 2009 - September 17, 2010)
  • Co-Head Writer (2005 - January 24, 2008; April 18, 2008 - October 5, 2009)
  • Head Writer (August 1999 - August 2000)

    • Days of Our Lives

  • Associate Head Writer (1991)
  • Head Writer (1988–1989)
  • Co-Head Writer (1986–1988)

    • General Hospital

  • Writer (1981–1984)

    • Guiding Light

  • Associate Head Writer (1993)
  • Co-Head Writer (1994 – November 1994)

    • One Life to Live

  • Co-Head Writer (1996–1998)

    • Awards and nominations

    Daytime Emmy Awards

    WINS

  • (2001; Best Writing; As the World Turns)

    • NOMINATIONS

  • (1983 & 1984; Best Writing; General Hospital)
  • (1985 & 1987; Best Writing; Days of Our Lives)
  • (1990; Best Writing; One Life to Live)
  • (2000, 2006, 2010 & 2011; Best Writing; As the World Turns)

    • Writers Guild of America Award

    WINS

  • (2007, 2009 & 2011 seasons; As the World Turns)

    • NOMINATIONS

  • (1988 & 1992 seasons; Days of Our Lives)
  • (1995 season; Guiding Light)
  • (2006, 2008 & 2010 seasons; As the World Turns)

    • References

    Leah Laiman Wikipedia
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